Atopobium vaginae

Atopobium vaginae

Atopobium vaginae Left panel, high power microscopy of bacteria; right panel, high power macroscopy of colony. Image from Laborgemeinshaft 2016

MICROBIOLOGY

A recently described gram-positive rod-shaped or elliptical anaerobic bacterium that is a normal commensal organism of the vagina and the attributable cause of 50% to 80% of cases of bacterial vaginosis.